LADY MEDICAL STUDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13896, 7 May 1907, Page 6

LADY MEDICAL STUDENTS

NEW ZEALANDERS AT EDINBURGH.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, March 23. 111 addition to the numerous male medical students from New Zealand at the University of Edinburgh, there are 11 fair number of New Zealand lady medical students at .worlc in tho northern capital, their headquarters being the Women's Medical College. At the present time theso Now Zealand ladies include: Mrs Alice M. Burn (wife of Mr D. W. M. Burn, 11.A., of Otago), Miss Eva Meredith (her sister), Miss Jessie Scott (Christchurch), and Miss Wilma Siovwright (Gisborne). Tho accompanying notes about tho progress of each of these ladies will,

I feel sure, be read with much interest in tho colony: — Mrs liurn, who began her medical conrso in New Zealand, has completed her degree in the minimum ainomit- of time, after a very succe-sslul career as a student—having scoured no fewer' than 17 honours certificates, most of 'them of the first-class order of merit. Last July sho qualified as M.8., C1i.8., Edinburgh, and lias since boon engaged in work for the diploma of public health. She takes up an apnointment as resident to the Women's Hospital in Edinburgh on May I. After securing her D.P.H. in October next she proposes to return to New Zealand. Dr Bum is boinpc specially trained for public health appointments in tho way of work against infant mortality, inspection of schbol children, domestic hyeieno, and tJio practical sanitation of the home, etc.—all that is included under tJw term "homo economies." Dr Burn purposes spending part of her April holiday in Arbroath with Mr Ilaitly Burn, father of Mr David Burn, of Birmingham. Dr Burn, who was formerly it student at Canterbury College, has many friends, especially in tho South Island, who wilt bo glad to learn of her very satisfactory progress In her profession.

Miss Eva Meredith, sister of Dr Alice Burn, is now in her filial year, having passed through her student course with tho record of honours in every class examination in the curriculum, more than half of which were of the first-clase order. She also was awarded the Edgewaro cold medal in anatomy, and she has secured class prizes for the second place in several other of her subjects, JUbs Meredith intends to spend her holiday in further pursuit of her medical studies, going to St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester. For many years Mi« Meredith was a teacher in South Canterbury, where she is well known. Both sisters have been more than mcro students of the Women's College during their sojourn in Edinburgh, for they have taken prominent and octivo parts in the social life of (lie medical students in the northern capital, and their presence is always in request for every function—formal or informal, social or professional— pcrtaininsr to the college. At tho present time Dr Alice Burn is actively promoting tho establishment of a central bureau for the investigation of underpaid or reducedsalaried posts for medical women. Miss Jessie Scott (Christchurc.h), another medical student in the north, is now in her third year, and sho, 100, has a Rood record of medals and honours passes in first and second year subjects. Last summer, during the vacation, Miss Scott spent six months in Germany, devoting some time to learning the language while staying with friends who live there. Miss Wilina SicvwrHit. (Gisborne),- also a medical student in Edinburgh, lias just been joined by her sister. Miss Mota Sievwright. who was one of tho passengers bj the s.s. Suevic on tho occasion of _hcr recent voyage, which ended in so disastrous a manne.'. Miss M. Sievwrieht arrived in Edinburgh minus all her belongings, but. in .good health and in excellent spirits; it is believed now that hor lugRajro will ultimately bo sent on to her quite intact. Up to the time of the erash on the rocks off the Lizard the Suevic had had a splendid passage, and those on board had had a very pleasant timo._ Tho Misses Sievwright aro planning a trip round the lochs and Highlands of Scotland for the summer months.